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Location:

South Jordan,UT,United States

Member Since:

Feb 04, 2008

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Local Elite

Running Accomplishments:

2010 Ogden Half Marathon 1st overall

2010 Bryce Canyon Half 2nd overall 1:12

2010 St. George Marathon 10th overall

2011 American Fork Half marathon 1st overall New PR 1:10:37

2012-Mt. Nebo Half 1:08:00

 

 

 

 

 2009 St. George Marathon 11th overall 2:31:43

2009 Ogden Marathon 4th place overall

2008 St. George Marathon 2:40:46 18th overall

2008 Tou Half 1:14:35 7th overall

2008 Bear Lake Half marathon 1st place Win. Set Course record.

2008 Provo river Half  PR 1:13:28

2008 Boston Marathon 2:49--Beat Lance Armstrong by 2 minutes.

2008 Ogden Marathon 10th overall.

Ragnar Relay Del Sol 2008--1st Place Team Overall. Set new course record! 17 hours 4 minutes 5.38 average pace per mile!

Ragnar Relay Wasatch Back 2008--2nd Place Team overall. 17 hours 54 minutes.

2007 Top of Utah 1/2 Marathon 1:14 4th overall

2007 Wasatch Back Relay 3rd team overall---Very Fun!

Boston, Rock & Roll Arizona, Carlsbad are my favorite marathons.

2007 St. George Marathon 2:40 with puking!39th overall

 

 

 

 

Short-Term Running Goals:

My short term goals are to stick to a good regime.

To bring my marathon pr down in mid 2:30's

World Championship Maters Marathon July 17, 2011

USATFLDR Competition Series: Stiders Half, Salt Lake Half, Hobblecreek Half, Heart of Holiday 5k, Running with Leopards 5k, Draper Days 5k, Minuteman 5k, Top of Utah Half.

Great Potato Half marathon--Boise

Running with Ed 41 mile relay. Team Probar

St. George Marathon 2011

Get Sponsors and make money in Masters.

Sponsors so far:

Probar, St. George Running Center

 

 

Long-Term Running Goals:


My long term goals are to beat sasha.

To get my marathon time to 2:20's

 

Personal:

I have three girls-Sarah, Brooke, and Bailey and a baby boy born in Jan. 2010 named Boston. I own a Concrete Construction company called Quality Footings and Foundations. If any of my fellow bloggers are in need of concrete work just drop me a line or call 801-381-7089 I'll give you the friendly runner discount. Its hard work thats why between work and running I maintain my girlish figure! I own the American Flyers Race Pacers which is on Facebook to join. www.americanflyersracepacers.com 

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Started with the pack. I really wanted to push myself as hard as I could on the down parts. I stayed with the pack the first two miles. 5:05 was my first mile. 5:03 was my second. As soon as we hit the trail I slowed down. Justin park passed me and I managed to just keep him in sight in front of me the whole race except the last two miles I couldn't manage to go faster than 5:50 pace. Probably from post marathon legs or a tough trail run I did Wednesday. Pretty good course. Not as fast as I thought it'd be. Fun day!  I did a presentation to Rees Elementary on running back in January. I challenged them to all run 25 miles before this race and Run13 agreed to give them a marathon medal after they ran 1.2 miles to make 26.2! It was fun running with them. At the start line I asked some 5th graders if they were planning on beating me and they confidently said not a problem!! Some of them stopped and were walking the last 200 yards I I said you can't let me best you! They got up and sprinted in! A couple kids stopped at an intersection when the light went red and I said you all get to break the rules today and run the red light! This is the only chance in your life to get away with this! How does it feel to be a rule breaker?!! They were so fun. One cool sight I saw was a 5th grader who won his age group in the half marathon. Said he was motivated by my talking to them. Amazing kids!!  

Also, I am super proud of Brett Peterson, Mandi Mcbride and Bethany Erickson.  We have a little group that is trying to break 3 hours this year starting with Ogden. All three of them were shooting for a 1:25 half and Bethany just missed it but is only 12 days from a tough course marathon in Boston. She is in taper now for Ogden and I'm certain the rest will help her break 3. Brett hit a 1:23 with fresh legs coming off some tough workouts. Very good to see that! Mandi stole the show! I have been working with her on a speed, tempo and long run regime starting 3 weeks ago after she won the Buffalo 25k. She didn't warm up on the race and used the first few miles and then stayed with Brett. She's not used to racing so she was afraid to go. At mile 12 Brett told her to take off and she made up 22 seconds and finished barely behind Rachelle Wardle and the 5th place girl. A total of 7 seconds seperated her from the two in front of her. Her chip time was a second off of Rachelle in fact! So awesome of her to come out and run without a watch or knowing how to race it and be that close to the front.  I know she has potential to break 1:20 and easily a 3 marathon. I have been running trails with her and she pills away from me every incline. 

 

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Comments
From Matt Poulsen on Sun, May 04, 2014 at 10:18:30 from 50.168.224.197

Nice race, Walter! Great seeing you. That's awesome about you helping those elementary school kids. Cool stuff. Congrats on the Master's win, also!

From JPark on Mon, May 05, 2014 at 13:15:28 from 76.8.212.219

Nice race Walt, I felt you on my heals the whole way. You're a machine with all the racing you do.

From Walter on Mon, May 05, 2014 at 14:15:39 from 97.37.90.66

Matt, I'm amazed at the talent in Utah! Who puts a team together in a couple weeks through face book and goes to boston and takes 3rd overall against awesome runners!?

Justin, you pulled away and then I got close on the down stretches and you pulled away in the flat. I have some training to do. That was a fun day!!

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